orange-flowers, swallows, and regret
Autumn Rhythm, Jackson PollockBy all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.
- Helen Hunt Jackson, September
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt,
evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
- Alexander Theroux
There comes a time when autumn asks,
"What have you been doing all summer?"
- Anonymous
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
- Groucho Marx
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